Day: March 21, 2010

No full results from the X-LAW show, but SuperLuchas promotes that La Hermandad made an appearance (exchange for Sabu on Friday?) and Sabu/Park was the match of the year (and the show was the show of the year.) Sounds like Park won, but Super Parka ran in after to steal the belt.

Ras de Lona also mentioned an upcoming US reality show featuring Shocker, Hijo de Fantasma (two guys who speak English), and Delta (?). I would suspect it’s something where they appear on a show rather than a show about them.

Speaking of, the NOAH report on the tag title change has the attendance at AAA’s Friday show at 3,000. I don’t know what that number’s worth, but they all seem like guesses to me. Best guess for CMLL’s show is 16,000 (Taichi agrees!); short of a sellout, but obviously the best gate of the year at the prices they were charging (and without the tickets they were giving away.) WON has last year’s anniversary show at 18,000; a match with a far more certain and exact finish than Friday’s, though this finish was even slightly more displeasing to the hardcores. Predictable and painful, and still had wheel barrows of pesos. Stars in big matches draw people, and CMLL is going to stick to this formula.

AAA looks back at Heavy Metal’s history in AAA. Metal’s CMLL run isn’t quite a waste, because I don’t believe he was going to have much great success in AAA the last few years, but there’s not a lot of success there. Seemed more about what stage Heavy Metal is at in his career (and his interest in it) than the booking. Maybe it’ll be different in AAA.

Main event plays off last week’s finish, of course. Mistico can’t be around unless they’re going to turn Felino face (which doesn’t seem to be the pla, but he definitely got the ‘respected vet loses his mask’ tecnico reaction. Good to see Terrible & Texano make peace with the country of Japan. Warrior & Bracito continue fighting. I dunno about that lightning match.

Mistico, tecnico, blah blah. I don’t know who Mortis is, but he’s locked in on that Sunday opener. Two members of the Mexican Trios champions are actually teaming, so Metro has likely been moved to an undisclosed location to keep us all safe. That second match is quite a crew of guys who you weren’t sure were still around (so much so, maybe it’s a feint.)

Lady Apache indeed gets that title match. This is the only match I’ve seen Mr. Niebla listed for this week, but it was probably written before Friday. If Niebla is gone for an extended period, I’d guess they take Felino and Negro in a new direction rather than try to replace Niebla.